This is great. I have been playing with arduino, and AVR's in general for a while now. I am also a licensed amateur radio operator. Go and get your license, it's a lot of fun. Keep us all posted on the details of this project, I would love to make contact with the satellite.

Thanks for clearing that up.I hope to see the launch but apparently it more like... a political thing and someone like me, even tough i have a payload on the shuttle, will have a hard time getting a place to view it.

Maybe some people are interested in viewing the launch? We can watch as arduino enters space!

I added some more info on ANDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-127#Mission_payload